Strut your stuff tour ppt v1
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The document outlines an agenda and activities from the Kanabec Broadband Initiative's "Strut Your Stuff Tour" event. It discusses the goals and outcomes of projects implemented by the initiative, including placing computers in homes through PCs for People, using telehealth technology for patient education, enhancing technology at the Life Enrichment Center, creating starter websites and training, developing a community portal, claiming locations on Google Places, improving community WiFi, and establishing a telework center. The event included presentations from various organizations on their broadband-related projects and a reflection on lessons learned.
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Strut your stuff tour ppt v1
- 1. KANABEC BROADBAND INITIATIVE STRUT YOUR STUFF TOUR August 26, 2014, 4:00 – 6:00 pm Life Enrichment Center 160 Valhalla Circle, Mora, MN 55051
- 2. AGENDA • Networking, informal discussion and refreshments • Welcome and introductions • Meeting purpose ~ Bernadine Joselyn • Community presentation • Blandin response • The future • Adjourn
- 3. COMMUNITY PRESENTATION Let’s talk about … • Who was involved? • What were findings of the planning process? • What activities and projects were implemented? • Reflection
- 4. WHO WAS INVOLVED The Kanabec Broadband Initiative is an adhoc group of community organizations that recognize the importance of broadband to the economic competitiveness of Kanabec County - our residents, businesses and institutions. KBI member organizations include: Mora Area Chamber of Commerce, Mora & Ogilvie Public Schools, Kanabec Systems, FirstLight Health System, Kanabec County, City of Mora, Peoples National Bank of Mora, East Central MN Educational Cable Cooperative, Mora Housing & Redevelopment Authority, and East Central Regional Development Commission. Actual people include: Karen Amundson, Marc Johnson, Keith Thelen, Katie Kerr, Kelly Cinquegrani, Patrick Christopherson, Beth Thorp, Joel Dhein, Doyle Jelsing, and Paul Larson.
- 5. FINDINGS OF THE PLANNING PROCESS Community goals: • Establish a tele-commuting center; • remote healthcare monitoring in homes; • create an awareness of technical education opportunities; • connect college students in health care with clients in Kanbec County via internet; • education of community and businesses on “whys” and “how to use” and technology based skills; • Life Enrichment Center gets high-speed access, computers, and video conferencing equipment; • County-wide broadband committee to solve rural broadband access issue; • increase access to tele-health; • WiFi site creation, support and marketing; • affordable website and social media development for businesses; • create tech support / Internet café / public place access; • community portal website; • work to bring higher education to area schools and public; • have a presence at large gatherings to help educate people; and • interoperability between economic sectors.
- 6. ACTIVITIES AND PROJECTS: PCS FOR PEOPLE PRESENTED BY DOYLE JELSING Project goals: • PCs for People is one of the driving forces attempting to improve digital inclusion by eliminating the number of individuals without a computer or access to internet in the home. • One of our main focuses is our PCs for Kids program. The goal of the program is to partner with elementary schools to ensure that every child has access to a computer and internet in their home. Having a computer available at home gives a significant advantage to the students by allowing immediate access to information and educational opportunities. Best outcomes: • Place 50 computers in families of the Mora and Ogilvie school districts including Head Start. • Families with more than one student in the home had priority. Most fun: We placed 52 computers. Seeing the excitement their faces.
- 7. ACTIVITIES AND PROJECTS: JOINED FOR HEALTH PRESENTED BY KATIE KERR, MA, RHIA Project goals: • To provide pre-surgical patient education at FirstLight Health System (FLHS) Mora Clinic utilizing broadband and telehealth technology developed collaboratively by The College of St. Scholastica’s (CSS) physical therapy faculty/students and FirstLight clinicians. The education will provide information and empower patients and their families to anticipate surgical recovery needs. • To provide on-site clinical education to FirstLight Health System rehabilitation staff in four topics, including effective use of telemedicine for patient education. We will also provide the Health System’s health information staff with needed training on the new coding system (ICD-10) that must be in place by October 2014 in all hospitals and clinics. Best outcomes: • Brought together diverse perspectives – senior surgical population and young healthcare staff & students. • Demonstrated how broadband and technology can be leveraged to deliver healthcare and continuing education. Most fun: Senior citizens using and interacting with the technology.
- 8. ACTIVITIES AND PROJECTS: LIFE ENRICHMENT CENTER TECHNOLOGY ENHANCEMENTS PRESENTED BY ROSE DUNN & MARC JOHNSON Project goals Best outcomes Most fun
- 9. ACTIVITIES AND PROJECTS: STARTER WEBSITES AND TRAINING PRESENTED BY KAREN AMUNDSON & KEITH THELEN Project goals Best outcomes Most fun
- 10. ACTIVITIES AND PROJECTS: COMMUNITY PORTAL PRESENTED BY KAREN AMUNDSON & KEITH THELEN Project goals Best outcomes Most fun
- 11. ACTIVITIES AND PROJECTS: GOOGLE PLACE / SITE CLAIMING PRESENTED BY KAREN AMUNDSON Project goals Best outcomes Most fun
- 12. ACTIVITIES AND PROJECTS: COMMUNITY WI-FI IMPROVEMENTS PRESENTED BY KEITH THELEN & MARC JOHNSON Project goals Best outcomes Most fun
- 13. ACTIVITIES AND PROJECTS: TELE-WORK CENTER PRESENTED BY BETH THORP Project goal: Establish a tele-work center in downtown Mora for commuters and students to access high-speed broadband and computer / office equipment. The facility will provide area residents with additional employment and education opportunities, while making Kanabec County more attractive to potential residents wishing to continue employment or education elsewhere. Best outcomes: • Provide space equipped with high-speed broadband and technology access for Kanabec County residents and visitors to tele-commute for work and / or education purposes. • Demand for extended hours of operation and services related to tele-commuting. Most fun: This is a project in progress … the fun is still ahead!
- 14. REFLECTION • If we knew then what we know now... • How could the Blandin team have been more helpful? • What community-wide impacts are you observing or expecting?
Editor's Notes
- KBI held a community visioning meeting here at the LEC in March 2013. The meeting participants – approximately 30 people representing a wide sector of the community – listened and offered input on the Intelligent Community benchmarking report, and then formed small groups focusing on each of the five Intelligent Community elements. For those who aren’t familiar with these five elements, they include: broadband, knowledge workforce, innovation, digital inclusion and marketing. From here our five groups identified assets and gaps, identified desired outcomes, and created a list of projects that would move the community toward the desired outcomes. Finally, these projects were ranked through a voting process. You’ll see in our upcoming project presentations that we were able to accomplish many of our goals.
- Project Goals: The patient/family education pre-surgical course was developed and made available on the Internet. Four joint replacement patients received pre-surgical education online at the FirstLight Mora Clinic. While we had projected that 25 patients would receive this education, several factors limited the number of patients scheduled for joint replacement surgeries and thus reduced the number of patients eligible for our pre-surgical education. (See “Lessons Learned.”) Pre-operative patient/family participants reported reduced anxiety and improved preparedness for post-operative needs based on self-reporting scales on pre- and post-tests. Patient/family participants reported effective delivery of healthcare education via telehealth technology and willingness to utilize telehealth technology in the future. An entire class of Physical Therapy (PT) students from The College of St. Scholastica participated in the project, and their knowledge of the use of telehealth in rural communities increased. FirstLight rehabilitation staff reported on the positive value of telehealth as a pre-operative delivery mechanism. Through this project, five topics were presented and three Continuing Education Units (CEUs) were offered to FirstLight rehabilitation clinicians and health information management and coding staff. FirstLight project participants increased their knowledge of telehealth use for pre-surgical patient education. Best Outcomes & Most Fun: This project accelerated innovation driven by the interaction of diverse perspectives—the use of telehealth education by the senior surgical population and the generally younger healthcare staff.
- Lessons Learned: We would facilitate improved physician “buy-in” by intentionally involving them in informational presentations and/or one-on-one meetings in which we could address specific questions or concerns they might have about the project. We also might select a second and more general patient population of focus. Because the number of patients who receive orthopedic surgery at FLHS is generally low, it did not allow flexibility in the event of either technical or environmental factors that affect the number of surgeries. Perhaps focusing on patient education related to one chronic disease (e.g. prediabetes education or congestive heart failure education) would have greatly expanded the number of patients in the pool. Lessons Learned Functional testing is critical to the success of telehealth initiatives. Telehealth projects provide a unique learning opportunity for students to engage with both clinical and technical content, yet it requires a significant amount of time coordinating events with clinical sites and faculty mentors to achieve desired learning outcomes. Despite overall low participation among patients due to issues outside of the control of project staff, telehealth presentations seemed to be well received by those patients who participated in pre-surgical education during the course of the project. Additional offerings of the educational content are necessary for proper evaluation. Telehealth, while useful for patient education, was found to be especially valuable for rural hospital staff continuing education. Community wide impacts: Early on KBI identified FLHS as an innovation “asset” and this project helped demonstrate to patients and staff that broadband can be applied telehealth and healthcare delivery and to increase the technology skills of their workforce/staff. Providing education via telehealth technology for pre-surgical joint replacement patients strengthened and expanded the capacity of the FirstLight Health System – one of Mora’s most significant enterprises. This pilot project can be applied to many other areas of rural healthcare services (e.g. diabetic management), thereby increasing access to healthcare and potentially decreasing the cost of this care.
- The tele-work center, a project sponsored by the Mora Economic Development Authority (EDA), is to be located in currently-vacant space (the former Police Station) which is owned by the Public Utilities Commission. The PUC graciously donated the space for one year, and the EDA and KBI will make necessary – yet minimal - renovations. The Mora Area Chamber of Commerce has agreed to provide management services for the tele-work center. The tele-work center will be equipped with six work stations, a conference room, and offer high-speed broadband and technology access. Three of the six work stations will be equipped with desktop computers for those subscribers who may not have their own equipment. All subscribers will have access to standard office equipment, such as a printer. While the facility will have limited staffed hours, subscribers will have 24/7 access to the facility. In order to sustain our efforts, tele-work center subscribers will be charged on a daily or monthly basis for use of the facility. While it is not our goal to make money on this project, we do need to make enough to cover things like rents, utilities, and management services.